Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago. https://t.co/slnUkIGB5j
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Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago. https://t.co/slnUkIGB5j
Startups are about focusing and executing on a single, scalable idea rather than jumping on every good one which crosses your desk.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
I've never taken the perspective of "build a cool piece of technology and see where it goes." It's more or less been based on an intuition about a hole in the market—or, more accurately, a future hole in the market. At any given time, you've got to have a technology roadmap in your mind and a market roadmap as to where things are headed—b
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
So what is culture? Does culture matter? If so, how much time should you spend on it? Let’s start with the second question first. The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that’s at least ten times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good
... See moreBen Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Product-market fit works in both directions. The perspective of the builder is always toward what they can do to change their product, what features and functionality to add. But with a long enough lens on successful and failed technology launches, you see that things like market context really matters. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t see as many ideas t... See more